Sparing nature : the conflict between human population growth and earth's biodiversity /
Annotation "Are humans too good at adapting to the earth's natural environment? Every day, there is a net gain of more than 200,000 people on the planet - that's 146 a minute. Has our explosive population growth led to the mass extinction of countless species in the earth's plant...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
©2003.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj5zq |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Sparing Nature
- Chapter 2 The Scattered Seeds
- Chapter 3 The Human Wedge
- Chapter 4 Genesis of a Crisis
- Chapter 5 Germs of Existence
- Chapter 6 The Great Restrictive Law
- Chapter 7 Good to the Last Drop
- Chapter 8 Biodiversity in Action
- Chapter 9 Epilogue: The Keystone Species with a Choice
- Notes
- Index